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TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.] [fwl PRESS ASSOCIATION.! {Received This Day, 11 a.m. Ottawa, Dec. 2G. The Naval Dept. lias learned that Stefansson has arived at Fort \ukon from the Arctic. Stefansson left Vi<l':«ria (British Columbia) on June, 1913, to search the unknown Arctic continent. A le.iot ship was .wrecked l and Stofaiveon lived with the Eskimos. Later word arrived that lie intended jo make the 'Northwest passage eastward through Melville Sound. There are indications tliat live abandoned his plan owing to tho late breaking of the ice in 1917 throughout the Arctic. iFort Yukon is in "Alaska, insi.tde the Arctic circle.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 December 1917, Page 3
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